The next generation of legal AI doesn't just understand law — it understands lawyers
Highlights
- CoCounsel Legal adapts communication style for executives, compliance teams, and business units automatically.
- Built on Westlaw and Practical Law content curated by 1,200+ attorney editors for contextual intelligence.
- Early adopters report 63% reduction in document revision time and 12 hours weekly reclaimed.
Corporate legal departments face a challenge that law firms rarely encounter: serving multiple internal audiences with vastly different communication styles, risk tolerances, and information needs. Your CEO needs executive summaries. Your compliance team needs detailed regulatory analysis. Your business units need practical guidance they can actually implement.
What if your AI legal assistant understood these distinctions as intuitively as your most experienced attorney?
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Beyond generic AI: Professional-grade contextual intelligence
Real-world applications: How context changes everything
The Practical Law advantage: Context built on expertise
Measurable impact on corporate legal operations
The competitive advantage of contextual AI
Beyond generic AI: Professional-grade contextual intelligence
CoCounsel Legal represents a fundamental shift from generic AI tools that treat all legal work the same. Built on the authoritative content of Westlaw and Practical Law, and curated by 1,200+ attorney editors, CoCounsel Legal doesn’t just generate legal content. It adapts its professional voice, analytical depth, and communication style based on your requirements.
“CoCounsel Legal understands that a brief for the board requires different language than a memo for the compliance team,” explains one Fortune 500 General Counsel. “It’s like having a senior associate who instinctively knows how to communicate with different stakeholders.”
Real-world applications: How context changes everything
Executive briefings that actually brief executives
When preparing a regulatory update for your CEO, CoCounsel Legal automatically adjusts its output to focus on business implications rather than legal technicalities. Instead of generating dense regulatory analysis, it produces executive-ready summaries that highlight:
- Financial impact and timeline implications
- Strategic risks and opportunities
- Recommended actions in business terms
- Competitive considerations
The same regulatory development, when analyzed for your compliance team, generates detailed implementation guidance, specific procedural requirements, and comprehensive risk assessments.
In-house vs. external counsel: Different voices, different purposes
Contextual intelligence is exceptionally valuable in document drafting. When CoCounsel Legal operates in “in-house counsel” mode, it naturally incorporates:
- Business-first language that internal stakeholders can understand and implement
- Internal process integration reflecting your company’s specific workflows and approval chains
- Cost-conscious recommendations that balance legal protection with business efficiency
- Cross-departmental considerations that acknowledge how legal decisions impact other business units
Switch to “external counsel” mode for the same document, and CoCounsel Legal adapts to provide:
- Comprehensive legal protection with detailed clause-by-clause analysis
- Precedent-heavy language drawn from similar transactions and court decisions
- Risk-averse positioning that prioritizes legal certainty over business convenience
- Billable-hour optimization that ensures thorough documentation and analysis
The Practical Law advantage: Context built on expertise
This contextual intelligence isn’t achieved through generic machine learning. CoCounsel Legal’s ability to adapt its professional voice stems from its foundation in Practical Law’s expert-curated content, which already reflects these professional distinctions.
When Practical Law editors create guidance for in-house counsel versus law firm attorneys, they naturally adjust tone, focus, and recommendations. CoCounsel Legal leverages this embedded expertise, ensuring its contextual adaptations reflect genuine professional differences rather than superficial stylistic changes.
Measurable impact on corporate legal operations
Early adopters report significant improvements in cross-functional collaboration:
- 63% reduction in time spent revising documents for different audiences
- 85% of users report that stakeholders better understand and act on legal guidance
- 12 hours per week reclaimed from repetitive reformatting and rewriting tasks
More importantly, General Counsel report that this contextual intelligence actually improves legal outcomes by ensuring the right message reaches the right audience in the right format.
The competitive advantage of contextual AI
In an era where every legal department is expected to do more with less, the ability to communicate effectively across organizational boundaries isn’t just convenient — it’s strategic. CoCounsel Legal ensures that your legal expertise translates into business value, regardless of your audience.
Generic AI tools force you to be the translator, converting between legal analysis and business communication. CoCounsel Legal eliminates that friction, allowing you to focus on substantive legal work while it handles the contextual adaptation.
Ready to experience contextual intelligence?
CoCounsel Legal is already transforming how 17,000+ law firms and legal departments communicate across professional contexts. Join the 80% of Am Law 100 firms and leading corporate legal departments who have discovered that the future of legal AI isn’t just about generating content — it’s about generating the right content for the right audience.
Experience CoCounsel Legal‘s contextual intelligence in your environment. Request a demonstration tailored to your corporate legal department’s specific communication challenges.
